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Use Of Modeling To Support Students’ Learning Of Energy Concepts, Delaney Carone, Ashley Perkins
Use Of Modeling To Support Students’ Learning Of Energy Concepts, Delaney Carone, Ashley Perkins
Honors Theses
This paper presents a method for teaching energy concepts to children to children. By implementing modeling and the predict-observe-explain method, teachers can greatly improve critical thinking skills and abstract conception capacity in young students. The main focus of this lesson is based on the disciplinary core idea of Energy, and specifically on 4-PS3-1: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object (NGSS Lead States, 2012). Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standard 4.PS3.1, the lesson gives examples of activities and tips on how teachers can teach students to explain how …
Why Do Shadows Change Throughout The Day?, Caitlin M. Hallam
Why Do Shadows Change Throughout The Day?, Caitlin M. Hallam
Honors Theses
In this lesson, elementary students use a hands-on demonstration to study why shadows change throughout the data. They collect data using a model of the earth and sun system, and then use their own shadows to verify their data collection.